Notes on a Scandal
  • Published: 27 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241989173
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99
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Notes on a Scandal

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Paperback
27 Nov 2020
EBook
5 Jan 2007
Paperback
10 Jun 2009
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The stunning Booker shortlisted novel from bestselling author Zoë Heller, now a Penguin Essential

'We don't have secrets, Sheba and I'

From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her young pupils, Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba's chief defender. But all is not as at first it seems in this dark story and, as Sheba will soon discover, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.
  • Published: 27 November 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241989173
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Zoe Heller

Zoë Heller was born in London. She was educated at Oxford University and Columbia University in New York. Her first novel, Everything You Know, was published by Viking in 1999, her second, Notes on a Scandal (also published by Viking) was recently made into a feature film starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Zoë Heller writes a column for the Daily Telegraph and was Columnist of the Year for 2002. She lives in New York.

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Praise for Notes on a Scandal

Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

Guardian

Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages

Daily Telegraph

Deliciously sinister

Daily Mail

Excellent. An undercurrent of subtle malice, cleverly controlled by Heller

Evening Standard

Brilliant, nasty, gripping

Zadie Smith, Observer

Reads like a nose through someone else's bathroom cabinet: full of guilty insights and delicious snobbery

Independent

A subtle study in obsession and loneliness ... my take-it-to-the-beach recommendation

Monica Ali, Guardian Summer Reading
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